Both the MirBSD Korn Shell and
jupp – the editor which sucks less
have seen new releases today. Please test them, report all bugs,
and otherwise enjoy all the bugfixes.
Other subprojects will also have new releases… once I get around
doing so after hacking them…

The 2014Q3 branch has just been branched and the package builder has been
updated to use that branch. This means that the next update on the quarterly
packages will be on the 2014Q3 branch.
What happened during the last 3 months:
- 177 different committers have participated
- 9918 commits happened
- diffstat says: 23646 files changed, 554070 insertions(+), 577210 deletions(-)
What does that means for users:
- default Java is now 1.7
- massive conversion to stagedir (93% of the ports are now properly staged)
- massive improvement of the usage of libtool (which reduces a lot overlinking)
- new USES: mono, objc, drupal, gecko, cpe, gssapi, makeinfo
- new Keywords for plist: @sample, @shell
- LibreOffice has been updated to 4.2.5
- Firefox has been updated to 30.0
- Firefox-esr has been updated to 24.6
- Default postgresql has moved from 9.0 to 9.2
- nginx has been updated to 1.6.0
- Default lua is 5.2
- subversion has been split into multiple ports for each features
- On FreeBSD 9-STABLE and 10-STABLE the default xorg 1.12.4 (for default binary
packages it is still 1.7.7)
- Improved QA checking in the infrastructure
- Info files are handle correctly even if base has been built WITHOUT_INFO
- Ancient emacs version has been cleaned out

BSDday (http://bsdday.org/), University
of Buenos Aires' Faculty of natural and exact sciences, Buenos Aires,
Argentina 9 August, 2014. BSDday Argentina is a conference for users,
sysadmins
and developers of BSD software and based systems. The
conference is for anyone developing, deploying and using systems
based on FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, DragonFlyBSD and others *BSD.
BSDday Argentina is a technical conference and aims to collect
the best technical papers and presentations available to ensure
that the latest developments in our open source community are
shared with the widest possible audience.

This time on the show, we'll be sitting down to talk with Craig
Rodrigues about Jenkins and the FreeBSD testing infrastructure.
Following that, we'll show you how to roll your own OpenBSD ISOs with
all the patches already applied... ISO can't wait!
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